The food and game fishes of New York: . c o q:Io (/) D 0u b z uI-(f) /6 od CI O01 THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 419 118. Scup ; Porgy; Sand Porgee {Stciiotoinus c/inso/^s Liniiiuus). Labnis versicolor Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 404, pi. Ill, fig. 7, 1815, New areiiosiis , N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 91, pi. 22, fig. 67, 1S42, Long Island; argvrops DeKav, op. cit. 95, pi. IX, fig. 25, 1842; argyrops JORU.\N & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mas., 557, chrysops Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C, VII, 142, tSSS; 19th Rept. Comm.
The food and game fishes of New York: . c o q:Io (/) D 0u b z uI-(f) /6 od CI O01 THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 419 118. Scup ; Porgy; Sand Porgee {Stciiotoinus c/inso/^s Liniiiuus). Labnis versicolor Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 404, pi. Ill, fig. 7, 1815, New areiiosiis , N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 91, pi. 22, fig. 67, 1S42, Long Island; argvrops DeKav, op. cit. 95, pi. IX, fig. 25, 1842; argyrops JORU.\N & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mas., 557, chrysops Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C, VII, 142, tSSS; 19th Rept. Comm. Fish. N. Y., 261, pi. XIV, fig. 18, 1890; Jordan & Fesler, Rept. U. S. F. C. 1889 to 1891, 507, 1893; Bean, Bull. .Vm. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 366, 1897; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 100, 1898; Jordan cV- Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1346, 1898, pi. CCXI, fig. 544, 1900; Bean, 52d Ann. Rept. N. Y. .State Mus., 106, 1900; Sherwood & Edwards, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 28, 1901. v*^.. Color silvery, with bright reflections, dusky above, upper part of head deepbrown ; dorsal horn color, the last rays with a yellowish tinge ; axil of pectoraldusky; young with five or six dusky bars; iris golden, mottled with silvery andbrownish. Length, about i foot. The Scup is one of our best known fishes. In many places it is better knownunder the name Po-rgee. Mitchill and DeKay described it as the Big spelling for the same name is Pogy. Scup is an abbreviation of Scuppaug,which in turn is a shorter form for the name, Mishcuppauog. Thename Fairmaid, which is said to be given to the Scup on the Virginia coast, does notrightfully belong to this species, but rather to the Sailors Choice {Lagodon). The 420 SEVENTH REPORT {>V THE EOREST, EISII AM) CAME COMMISSION. name Iainnaid is rcc^ularly applied to the latter species at Cape Charles, Va.,accordiiii; to B. A. Bean. In Norfolk, Va., Mr. Bean heard the name Maiden for theyoung of the common Sciip. The
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